Renewable cellulosic nanocomposites for food packaging to avoid fossil fuel plastic pollution: a review

U Qasim, AI Osman, AH Al-Muhtaseb, C Farrell… - Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
The extensive use of petroleum-based synthetic and non-biodegradable materials for
packaging applications has caused severe environmental damage. The rising demand for …

Progress of polymers from renewable resources: furans, vegetable oils, and polysaccharides

A Gandini, TM Lacerda, AJF Carvalho… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
The interest in polymers from renewable resources has been witnessing an incessant
growth in both academia and industry, with these blooming activities covering a …

A review on chitosan-cellulose blends and nanocellulose reinforced chitosan biocomposites: Properties and their applications

AK HPS, CK Saurabh, AS Adnan, MRN Fazita… - Carbohydrate …, 2016 - Elsevier
Chitin is one of the most abundant natural polymers in world and it is used for the production
of chitosan by deacetylation. Chitosan is antibacterial in nature, non-toxic, and …

Extremely strong and tough chitosan films mediated by unique hydrated chitosan crystal structures

Q Zhang, Y Chen, P Wei, Y Zhong, C Chen, J Cai - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Chitosan-based materials have attracted considerable attention owing to their inherent
biodegradability, biocompatibility, and antimicrobial properties. However, the establishment …

Advances in tissue engineering of nanocellulose-based scaffolds: A review

H Luo, R Cha, J Li, W Hao, Y Zhang, F Zhou - Carbohydrate polymers, 2019 - Elsevier
Scaffolds based on nanocellulose (NC) have crucial applications in tissue engineering (TE)
owing to the biocompatibility, water absorption, water retention, optical transparency, and …

Nanocellulose-based products for sustainable applications-recent trends and possibilities

R Reshmy, E Philip, SA Paul, A Madhavan… - … Science and Bio …, 2020 - Springer
The bio-based products can provide a solution to the problems associated with petroleum
shortages and waste treatment. Nanocellulose development has raised massive interest for …

[HTML][HTML] Nanocellulose as sustainable biomaterials for drug delivery

S Das, B Ghosh, K Sarkar - Sensors International, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose (NC) has lately appeared as a member of the major promising “green”
materials, garnering great attentiveness due to it's unique features. Several new materials …

Recent advances in qualitative and quantitative characterization of nanocellulose-reinforced nanocomposites: A review

F Garavand, M Nooshkam, D Khodaei, S Yousefi… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanocellulose has received immense consideration owing to its valuable inherent traits and
impressive physicochemical properties such as biocompatibility, thermal stability, non …

Physical, mechanical and wound healing properties of chitosan/gelatin blend films containing tannic acid and/or bacterial nanocellulose

P Taheri, R Jahanmardi, M Koosha, S Abdi - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study aimed to prepare a new composition for wound dressing having desired
properties using naturally occurring materials. Chitosan/gelatin (1: 2 w/w) films containing …

Advanced functional materials based on nanocellulose for pharmaceutical/medical applications

R Nicu, F Ciolacu, DE Ciolacu - Pharmaceutics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nanocelluloses (NCs), with their remarkable characteristics, have proven to be one of the
most promising “green” materials of our times and have received special attention from …